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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!labtam!eyrie!athos From: athos@eyrie.img.com.au (David Burren) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Yet Another 386BSD 0.1 Success (also disktab query) Message-ID: <712470678.8199@eyrie.img.com.au> Date: 30 Jul 92 04:31:18 GMT Organization: img Consultants, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 39 I can now report 386BSD success on yet another platform: 16 MHz 386SX / 2 MB RAM (unknown manufacturer) and 20 MHz 386DX / 4 MB RAM (NEC I believe) The DX is on loan for a while, and I've swapped all the following devices between the systems with no 386BSD problems. HGC video card WD 8013 Ethernet Serial card MFM controller 1.44 MB floppy Seagate ST4053 44 MB drive 1540B controller Quantum P40S (Will be reorganizing machines this weekend to ) (free up a Miniscribe 9380S to load etc01/src01) Although the installation notes say that 40 MBytes is the minimum to load bin01, I found it wouldn't fit on the Seagate with the uncompressed distribution as well. I got around that by hooking up the Quantum as /tmp. I'm now trying to work out what to do with the Seagate, as a quick benchmark shows it up as being well over twice as slow as the Quantum on reads, and at _least_ 5 times as slow on writes. I'll have to try bonnie on it soon to get some accurate figures. As for installing onto the Miniscribe, at least I still have the bin01 files on the Quantum... mread is pretty bloody slow... Finally, is there anyone else collecting disktab entries? The only ones I found on kirk and agate were for a small number of MFM/IDE/ESDI disks, and I'm sure a lot more than that have been written. Where should I send my new entries? If I was ftp'able here I'd think about organizing an archive, but... - David B. athos@img.com.au